Activities of daily living : a novel
(Book)
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Published
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
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Published
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"A lucid and moving debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and becomes a caretaker for her stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, Activities of Daily Living is a startlingly precise, vivid, and tender examination of the passage of time"--Provided by publisher.